Leonard Zwilling, PhD Biography

Title:

Editor of Peacock in the Poison Grove: Two Buddhist Texts on Training the Mind

Position:

Not Clearly Pro or Con to the question "Is Sexual Orientation Determined at Birth?"

Reasoning:

"As for the etiology of the homosexual condition, Indian Buddhist tradition, at least as represented by Buddhaghosa, agrees for the most part with traditional Indian medical thought in seeing it as being essentially an organic disorder, although one with an important psychological component."

"Homosexuality as Seen in Indian Buddhist Texts" in Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender, 1992